Kayla Rae Whitaker’s novel The Animators with author notes included. She says that she wrote the novel because “I wanted to read a story about women making things with ferocity and obsession and discipline.”

The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson – a memoir and book about identity, gender, and family

Here it is… the final Book Riot Quarterly Box. The theme is travel and it includes the following goodies:

Alibis: Essays on Elsewhere by André Aciman – A collection of essays about what it means to travel, what drives us to travel and what we seek.

An African in Greenland by Tété-Michel Kpomassie – The book, part memoir, part cultural anthropology, recounts the ten years that Kpomassie spent traveling through Africa and Europe on his way to Greenland.

It’s that time again… time to look at another box of goodies from Book Riot & Quarterly Co.

As you can see, this box contained all sorts of awesome bookish tidbits:

Bright Lines by Tanwi Nandini Islam with a bonus postcard from one of the characters

Dryland by Sara Jaffe also with a bonus postcard from one of the characters

A Make Reading Great Again Hat

Novel Teas for the cold weather

Merriam-Webster’s 365 New Words-a-Year Page-a-Day Calendar (which I am already immensely enjoying, for example, today’s word is hachure (v.) – to shade with or show by short lines used for shading and denoting surfaces in relief, as in map drawing, and drawn in the direction of slope. And now we’ve all learned something new!)

Time to un-box another round of goodies from Book Riot’s Quarterly Box.

This quarter’s box contains:

The Word Exchange by Alena Graedon: A near-ish future cyberpunk novel where handheld technology has replaced all printed word. A few brave word lovers are trying to finish the final edition of the North American Dictionary when their editor goes missing. The box also contains a special note written by the author detailing some events after the end of the book.

Smarter Than You Think by Clive Thompson: A book that provides a counterargument to the notion that the internet is ruining civilization. It details how technology allows us to think more creatively and be more connected.

Grid-It Organizer

Pop Chart Lab Literary Genres Map: A flow chart showing the distinctions between different literary genres. So I can finally figure out the difference between apocalyptic, post-apocalyptic and dystopian science fiction.